Absolute assholes, yes. Completely. But bigger ones? I’d say a dead heat and they should all be banished to the Libertarian Island.

There is a family on my street. All young girls, their big loud mouthed mom and a dad nearly everyone had seen hit their dogs. Six dogs, give or take, they run away a lot. Those kids... I’ve seen the oldest hit those dogs, too. When one chased me she told me to hit it with a stick. She’s maybe eleven. Those kids... I…

It is a part of the story in the same way that gendered infantacide is part economics and culture where it occurs. Divorcing what these girls survived from the backward American faith that allowed it to happen would be a disservice. The Amish want to “pretend” it's the 1700s, and that's not all hand-ground flour and…

That’s in the Old Testament.

Abraham.

Worst. Rumspringa. Evar.

a few years ago, i made an AMERICA playlist on spotify, with 51 songs about the 50 states (and the district of columbia). It’s maybe the thing I’m most proud of?